Setting Up Domains and Users

Organizations may grow to a point where they need to divide into different branches or create special teams dedicated to an important project.

These teams may have their own domain and be able to collaborate and communicate using G Suite, but with their resources isolated from the rest of the organization. This also gives teams the ability to choose how much they want to share with the rest of the organization, and therefore, reduces potential security issues.

G Suite allows you to concentrate multiple domains into a single account or handle each domain as a separate account; this gives you great flexibility as an administrator when you need to manage several domains.

Managing multiple domains also means being able to add users and associate their accounts to the right domain or domains. You can choose to add users that are exclusive to a single domain...

Adding a new domain

Adding new domains is very useful for businesses when they need to handle multiple brands. The way they need to distribute their users will define how we create the user accounts and associate them within these domains.

In this section, we will learn how to add additional domains to a G Suite account or create aliases for the same domain. We will learn about the differences between both approaches as well.

We will also learn how to use Google Domains to easy add new domains, or aliases, to an account. Google Domains is a tool that launched in 2015 and will make things much easier for you as an administrator; when dealing with multiple domains, it allows you to find and buy new domains easily, as well as administer the ones you already own.

With Google Domains, you can do the following:

Find and buy new domains
Set your domain licenses to be renewed automatically...

Administering user accounts in multiple domains

Managing multiple domains requires being able to add users to each domain independently. Even if you are handling several accounts, Google Domains and G Suite make it easy for you to go to the right domain and add or remove users, as needed.

A large business usually has different departments and teams that work independently of each other, even though they all form part of a larger parent company. As a Google administrator, one of your duties is to help these organizations be able to divide users into the different teams in an efficient way.

Switching between administrator accounts

As an administrator of multiple domains, you will find yourself jumping between different administrator...

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to use Google Domains to find available domains and buy them, so you can help your team to get the perfect domain.

We also learned the differences between setting up a new domain as an alias or as an additional non-primary domain, as well as the differences between both approaches. With this, we can administer multiple domains for our clients and help them to manage their departments efficiently.

Getting a new domain is only the first step; we also learned how to create new user accounts, either one by one, or in bulk, and associate them to specific domains.

Now that we know how to manage multiple domains, we need to know how to monitor what's happening in our domains. In the next chapter, we will learn how to monitor all of the different reports that G Suite has to offer.